Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As the old Chinese saying goes, "It takes more than one cold day for the river to freeze three feet deep." Among other achievements, four decades of communist rule succeeded to a great extent in suppressing the people's initiative and suffocating their independent minds. People felt that they were...
Essentially the conflict was one of whose right it was to determine the morality of college students--the College's or the students' themselves. And in the process of decrying the proposed tightening of existing parietal rules, the class of 1964 entered the fringe of what would become the 1960s...
At the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, the P.L.A. initially stood aloof. As the Red Guards ran amuck, Mao Zedong urged the military to challenge them -- but with rhetoric, not guns and bayonets. Some officers rebelled against what they felt was the ambiguity of their position. In Wuhan...
When the Cultural Revolution subsided, so many political jobs had been left vacant as a result of the struggle that by 1969 military officers held 40% of the Communist Party's key posts. By this time, though, Mao had a new threat to contend with: the ambition of Defense Minister...
Is this sequel mania evidence of economic health or of creative bankruptcy? Cunningly, the theatrical-film industry has held its ground against the marauding armies of the video revolution. In fact, one format has fed the other, as audiences first view pictures on the big screen, then supplement their cinema...